[1n3nt0r]

If we have a mix of human drivers and AI assisted drivers on the road, nothing short of AGI is going to be sufficient. Aspects of driving involve theory of mind - anticipating what another driver might do, sometime eye contact, etc.

An alternative solution would be to allow only autonomous vehicles and have these vehicles in a mesh network so can coordinate to drive efficiently and avoid mishaps. This would work reasonably on highways, but on local roads with pedestrians, bicyclists, and unexpected obstructions, theory of mind and ability to handle outliers will be important.

My conclusion is that something close to AGI would be required to implement succesfully.

[DoingIsLearning]

> An alternative solution would be to allow only autonomous vehicles and have these vehicles in a mesh network so can coordinate to drive efficiently and avoid mishaps.

Why should more public space be given up for private transit? At that point we would be better off building a wide network of autonomous trams with small capacity and high frequency.

[thechao]

As a stop gap, we could mechanically link all the "autonomous" cars, together and just out one human in charge until the AGI tech is ready!

[DoingIsLearning]

That sounds a lot like public transit... I am pretty sure that would never work!